Do Hauntings Stay with a House?

[blackraven]

I lived 17 years in a quaint 2 story house built in 1924. From the first night we were there, things started happening, like walking through cold spots or smelling a cigar in the dining room. I had to have this house. I was drawn to it and I felt it waited for us to buy it as it was on the market for over a year. As the strange events began happening on a regular basis, they were nerve-wrecking and caused a lot of anxiety in family members. In time with things moving, doors slamming, TV's turning on and off, pictures flying off the wall, etc., etc., we just learned to accept our haunted house as being just that - haunted.

We did not move from this house because it was haunted, but for other reasons. However, in the 7 years that we've left that house it already has had 2 different owners. We thought for sure a family would fall in love with it and raise a family there for many years.

Got me wondering if the haunting we experienced remained behind in that house and if the haunting drove new owners away. Of course this is all just speculation on my part. Certainly there could be a number of reasons why someone would move. I thought that perhaps my family was bringing out the paranormal activity, but perhaps it's still going on and others don't have the stomach for it.

What do you think? Do you think people are haunted or places. Since moving I've experienced some unusual activity, enough to make me think, "Oh no, here we go again." But it was short lived and on a much smaller scale.

[Shine]

Hi, Blackraven,
I've been in a similar situation.
The house I grew up in was haunted and once I moved out; two of the shadow creatures I would see at my childhood house showed up at the apartment I moved too! But i think in your case from what you wrote; the house had a spirit attached to the house but i think that the new place you moved into also happened to have left over energy - not the same spirit.

[blackraven]

Hi, Blackraven,
I've been in a similar situation.
The house I grew up in was haunted and once I moved out; two of the shadow creatures I would see at my childhood house showed up at the apartment I moved too! But i think in your case from what you wrote; the house had a spirit attached to the house but i think that the new place you moved into also happened to have left over energy - not the same spirit.

Thanks for your input, shine. I agree with you. I believe spirits can remain attached to a house and continue to haunt new owners. Whereas other types of spirits may travel with a specific person to a new location. The house in live in now feels like it has residual energy from the builders, past owners and events that took place in the past. The previous house I lived in, however, had something menacing that had no reservations about being made aware of by us. Even visitors would come over and say, "Whose running around upstairs?" I'd say, "No one is up there, it's the spirits that came with the house." But the most blatant show of force (which could have been a poltergeist) was when my family was eating dinner in the main floor dining room and we all heard a very loud thump upstairs, like something heavy was just dropped. We all ran up there to my art room and in the middle of the floor was a huge jade tree that must have weighed over 50 pounds. Only thing was it previously sat at the exterior of the room directly in front of a window. Scared the living daylights out of my entire family that something that large and heavy was picked up and dropped by a paranormal force in the house.

[desert rat]

Could of been an old owner that passed on and just did not want to leave . It could just be left over energy .

[GoldenEmbers]

Spirits attach to certain locations. Depending on how they died and the energy they became, they will be negative or posotive. I used to live in an R.V park where a man who was an escape prisoner shot himself. He shot himself on the lot on the hill. My family and I lived at the base of the hill and were terrorized by a malevolant spirit. I believe he was bound there by the negative emotions that he had experienced in his last moments. Emotions basically are energy. It's like the law of attraction. You let out a certain vibration and it creates your reality.

[blackraven]

Could of been an old owner that passed on and just did not want to leave . It could just be left over energy .

Yes desert rat, I believe that was the case with the old house I used to live in. One night, my then 6-year-old son, woke up screaming in his bed. I tried to walk to his room, but some force above me was pushing down on my shoulders and my feet wouldn't move. This went on for what felt like a few minutes. Finally I broke free and when I got to his room he was sitting up in his bed with a shocked look on his face, crying asking me who all the men were standing around his bed with guns pointed at him. Mind you, the previous owner's son died at war and that residence is the last place he lived before going off to war. That bedroom may have even been his at one time.

[blackraven]

Spirits attach to certain locations. Depending on how they died and the energy they became, they will be negative or posotive. I used to live in an R.V park where a man who was an escape prisoner shot himself. He shot himself on the lot on the hill. My family and I lived at the base of the hill and were terrorized by a malevolant spirit. I believe he was bound there by the negative emotions that he had experienced in his last moments. Emotions basically are energy. It's like the law of attraction. You let out a certain vibration and it creates your reality.

GoldenEmbers - Sounds like you have had your own experiences with malevolent spirits. And your right about the law of attraction. Seems like the more my anxiety and stress levels went up in that house, the more paranormal events took place. It was especially bad during my son's teen years when turmoil both of a personal nature and paranormal nature seemed to feed off one another.

[PeaceChic99]

It is hard to tell in your case. Do the events happen when you are out and about? I know that there are cases of the dead haunting people, but these are very rare. About buildings, if an event occurred in a structure and said structure was demolished and a new one built on top of it, then that home would be haunted, despite the older building not being there.

[Green.Heals]

"Seems like the more my anxiety and stress levels went up in that house, the more paranormal events took place."

Hi, I don't really have a knack or understanding of anything paranormal, but, I have had my fair share - though since it's stopped last October, I've only had one recurrence about a month or so ago. The more so stressed I had been, the worse off I'd be in terms of "hauntings" if you want to call them that..

It's said they cannot hurt you, but it is unnerving when things are picked up, and dropped, or in my case, I have a loft bed 8 feet off the floor, and I've had it slammed into whilst I was in it, and rocked...not in a calming sense either.

Mine is due to being an open portal in the apartment below... though maybe it's closed, I'm not sure, but I ignore them now, and that could be why. I've lived in houses too with spirits I'd say, that played with my mind, and another that wanted me out.

[Green.Heals]

"Seems like the more my anxiety and stress levels went up in that house, the more paranormal events took place."

Hi, I don't really have a knack or understanding of anything paranormal, but, I have had my fair share - though since it's stopped last October, I've only had one recurrence about a month or so ago. The more so stressed I had been, the worse off I'd be in terms of "hauntings" if you want to call them that..

It's said they cannot hurt you, but it is unnerving when things are picked up, and dropped, or in my case, I have a loft bed 8 feet off the floor, and I've had it slammed into whilst I was in it, and rocked...not in a calming sense either.

Mine is due to being an open portal in the apartment below... though maybe it's closed, I'm not sure, but I ignore them now, and that could be why. I've lived in houses too with spirits I'd say, that played with my mind, and another that wanted me out.

[blackraven]

"Seems like the more my anxiety and stress levels went up in that house, the more paranormal events took place."

Hi, I don't really have a knack or understanding of anything paranormal, but, I have had my fair share - though since it's stopped last October, I've only had one recurrence about a month or so ago. The more so stressed I had been, the worse off I'd be in terms of "hauntings" if you want to call them that..

It's said they cannot hurt you, but it is unnerving when things are picked up, and dropped, or in my case, I have a loft bed 8 feet off the floor, and I've had it slammed into whilst I was in it, and rocked...not in a calming sense either.

Mine is due to being an open portal in the apartment below... though maybe it's closed, I'm not sure, but I ignore them now, and that could be why. I've lived in houses too with spirits I'd say, that played with my mind, and another that wanted me out.

Gr33nLuv - That's for popping in and talking about your own experiences. I too have had my bed picked up with me in it, shaken and dropped back down. I went to light worker (that's what she called herself) around that time in my life and she said there was a portal to the spirit world in my attic. On more than one occasion I heard several voices speaking in the attic in different languages as if they were having a meeting in my attic. Sounds like you can relate to spirit/paranormal activity feeding off of and contributing to stress and anxiety. There were times I thought I was losing my mind as I have some very frightening and tormenting events that took place in the past. I am in a better place now, thank God. But I'll never forget those years in my life in that house I use to live in for 17 years. The house had a hold on me and vice versa. When I dream, I don't dream about the house I live in now, but my old haunted house. It's still fresh in my psyche.

[Lynn]

Hello

It can be at times the land that holds the energy and not the house or building itself. So that energy is fluid to go and come from inside to outside. There is a property where I live that the house finally came down on that was not a nice place I had to seal the energy on the land. No one would live in the house for long, it was well at some points dangerous. It was not the house as many would investigate and nothing.....one day I was there as a friend lived in it at the time and I 'saw it' outside the dark energy mass that oozed out of the yard and came into the window. It tossed me down the stairs and went out the window again. It was not in the house all the time.

I sealed the land and cleansed the house. The house is now gone but the land has not yet sold even though its listed and prime in development location. There still needs to be healing time for the land I sealed to clear.

I had a case where my kids moved two spirits with them from our house to our new house by asking them to come with. One was a relative from the Cival War an Uncle that came with, the other was a small boy that just wanted some toys to come in and play with at times. Both were crossed over but could interact with my kids.

I have one with me that goes everywhere I go as he is a part of me from a past life. Always present to the point where my husband even asked him for permissions before we married to share me. Its been good I am now not in need of his protections like I was with the ex, and he is still a part of me.

Lynn

[blackraven]

Hello

It can be at times the land that holds the energy and not the house or building itself. So that energy is fluid to go and come from inside to outside. There is a property where I live that the house finally came down on that was not a nice place I had to seal the energy on the land. No one would live in the house for long, it was well at some points dangerous. It was not the house as many would investigate and nothing.....one day I was there as a friend lived in it at the time and I 'saw it' outside the dark energy mass that oozed out of the yard and came into the window. It tossed me down the stairs and went out the window again. It was not in the house all the time.

I sealed the land and cleansed the house. The house is now gone but the land has not yet sold even though its listed and prime in development location. There still needs to be healing time for the land I sealed to clear.

I had a case where my kids moved two spirits with them from our house to our new house by asking them to come with. One was a relative from the Cival War an Uncle that came with, the other was a small boy that just wanted some toys to come in and play with at times. Both were crossed over but could interact with my kids.

I have one with me that goes everywhere I go as he is a part of me from a past life. Always present to the point where my husband even asked him for permissions before we married to share me. Its been good I am now not in need of his protections like I was with the ex, and he is still a part of me.

Lynn
Lynn - Getting tossed down the stairs would scare the heck out of me. I hadn't thought about the land which a building resides on top of, as holding the energy, but that makes sense to me. An aboriginal (Native American) dressed in full head gear visited me in the middle of the night 3 nights in a row. On night 4, he was no longer at the foot of my bed, but on my side of the bed holding an axe over me. I was raised in a town 25 miles away where early settler fox traders and the local tribes clashed and there was a lot of blood shed. I often wondered if a spirit from this time period followed me to my new location. Rumor had it the house I grew up in was built over ancient burial grounds, which is never a good thing.

When my son was a teen and experiencing a lot of turmoil during growth spurts, there seemed to be what I thought at the time was poltergeist activity. Furniture would slide around at night and we'd hear running and toys dropping in his bedroom when we were on the first floor and no one was in his room. One night I heard a door slam shut in the basement. I thought he'd come home late and called out his name, but no one was there. TVs, radios, lights would come on and off on many occasion and pictures would suddenly fall off the wall. Activity was especially busy when I was home alone. The hair on my dog's back stood up one evening when the door leading to the 2nd floor opened up on it's own.

I find it interesting that your kids and you both all have had spirits attached to you. Perhaps that's what was going on in that house with me. I never could shake it. I also never did any cleansing or ask whatever was there to leave the house.

Thanks for your input. It helps.

[Lynn]

Hello

Too many times we build over things that are not ready for that change. We do not take the time to prepare the land for the change or even ask permission to build there. I had that with a house I had built for me, by a developer.

There is an original railway station building up the road from where the development was. The railway ran down the road it was on. What we did not know is that the land was the "railway works yard" . The news media did a story on the development and my Son told the reporter about a "Spirit" that was there. He was dismissed, and we thought that was that. The reporter was back a few days later wanting to talk to my Son. Seems he went and did some research and found that there was a man that died there at the works yard after the railway was shut down. The drifter my Son talked about "Railway Joe" we knew him as. He was a drifter and he worked and lived in the yard and when he heard about the closing he died there from heartbreak. He would wonder in and out of homes there, the workers would see him from time to time. There were reports of activity at the station building but no one put it all together.

My Son told the reporter you dismissed me so I do not want to talk to you about it, next time a child tell you something maybe you should listen.

Lynn

[EarthAngel]

Looks as though a spirit energy is grounded to the building and sometimes if it is negative, it will feed of negative human emotion. They cant hurt you though!

[blackraven]

My Son told the reporter you dismissed me so I do not want to talk to you about it, next time a child tell you something maybe you should listen.

Lynn

Most definitely, Lynn. Thanks for sharing this story as well.

[blackraven]

Looks as though a spirit energy is grounded to the building and sometimes if it is negative, it will feed of negative human emotion. They cant hurt you though!

Yep, I agree with both parts of your statement, EarthAngel. I think like attracts like when it comes to the spirit world as well as the physical world. In that sense, negative attracts negative and positive attracts positive. Although some spirit/human relationships, just like physical life, are downright confusing as I remember all too well whenever things started going well, the house and the unnerving events seemed to push back at me and my family.

[NovaSounds]

Spirits are attracted to those who can confirm their existence! Just as in life, Spirits want to be recognized! So they will seek out, and be attracted to things they appreciated while they were alive! So Property, families, items....etc!......Spirits will attach themselves to these things. Most times the attachment can be broken by just acknowledging them, and allowing them to be released. Cleansing rituals by smudging work well if you want the spirit removed.

[blackraven]

Spirits are attracted to those who can confirm their existence! Just as in life, Spirits want to be recognized! So they will seek out, and be attracted to things they appreciated while they were alive! So Property, families, items....etc!......Spirits will attach themselves to these things. Most times the attachment can be broken by just acknowledging them, and allowing them to be released. Cleansing rituals by smudging work well if you want the spirit removed.

NovaSounds - Thanks for your input and welcome to the forum. I never did any cleansing rituals or even asked him/her/them to leave. Deep down I felt they were there first and I came into their old environment that they were still inhabiting. The first week we were in the house an older woman that was familiar with the house and some of it's history, told me that I shouldn't be surprised if after a while spirit activity takes place in the house. Kinda weirded me out since I had just met the woman. She was right and as we became neighboring friends and discussed what was happening in the house, she remained unmoved as she reminded me that she gave me the heads up when we first met.

[Green.Heals]

Hi blackraven, thanks for your response. Pretty much everything has stopped, and I find it interesting you mention it causing ill health. I have been in and out of ill health for some time. During the year that it was at its strongest, happenings every 2-3 weeks, I fell quite ill with CFS. Which meant I was home more, unable to leave.

The CFS oddly got worse earlier this year, after things began quieting down, the odd thing happens still but no ongoing or ongoing terrible feelings. Than, Ive also started asking for protection for a little over a year now, almost daily. In June the CFS 180'd, and still no bad feelings. Plus, Ive felt safe enough to sleep with the lights off, as Id kept them on at night for almost 2 years here, bcuz of the shadows that were watching me. Shapeless. But big.

. My anxiety was pretty bad in my life, around the time I started seeing/hearing/feeling. I too have heard voices but in different languages, in and out of English but cannot really recall, coming through my ipod, when I was leaving work but alone. I also had the same thing happen, mainly static though come in through my alarm radio when it was set to go off...but not, "on". Unplugged, and never to be used again, not in this place...

& I heard my mothers voice tell me, in my full name, which isnt used any longer, to wake up. It was morning, but never the less. My mother does not even live in this city.

[blackraven]

Hi blackraven, thanks for your response. Pretty much everything has stopped, and I find it interesting you mention it causing ill health. I have been in and out of ill health for some time. During the year that it was at its strongest, happenings every 2-3 weeks, I fell quite ill with CFS. Which meant I was home more, unable to leave.

The CFS oddly got worse earlier this year, after things began quieting down, the odd thing happens still but no ongoing or ongoing terrible feelings. Than, Ive also started asking for protection for a little over a year now, almost daily. In June the CFS 180'd, and still no bad feelings. Plus, Ive felt safe enough to sleep with the lights off, as Id kept them on at night for almost 2 years here, bcuz of the shadows that were watching me. Shapeless. But big.


. My anxiety was pretty bad in my life, around the time I started seeing/hearing/feeling. I too have heard voices but in different languages, in and out of English but cannot really recall, coming through my ipod, when I was leaving work but alone. I also had the same thing happen, mainly static though come in through my alarm radio when it was set to go off...but not, "on". Unplugged, and never to be used again, not in this place...

& I heard my mothers voice tell me, in my full name, which isnt used any longer, to wake up. It was morning, but never the less. My mother does not even live in this city.

Gr33nLuv - I'm sorry to hear that you struggle with CFS. I think sometimes when ones energy levels are very low due to physical, mental or spiritual health problems, the spirit world seems to have an upper hand with pushing through the veils separating their world from the physical plane.

Electronics seem to often be the method of choice for the spirit world when it comes to getting noticed. My wave machine I use for sleeping got static in it followed by voices. Some might speculate that it's some form of interference that the machine might have picked up. I just don't believe that's the case though.

[dream jo]

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[blackraven]

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Hi dream jo. I find that sometimes the harder one tries to avoid the spirit world, the more noise and movement the spirit world makes to be acknowledged.

[dream jo]

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[blackraven]

My previous house was built in 1924, but the current house I now live in is 56 years old. I was just saying the other night that I'm not feeling up to putting up a tree this year, since I have so much going on right now. The next day my spouse asked if I opened a large double door cabinet in the basement. I assured him I didn't. There are 2 sliding locks on the door that are always latched in the lock position. But they were unlocked and the doors were ajar. Then it struck me. The only thing stored in that cabinet is an artificial Christmas tree. The spirit world listens to what's going on in the lower physical plane. I think perhaps someone is trying to tell me they want that tree put up. Maybe it's the previous owner. The incident is very ironic though; one that I won't just ignore and dismiss as nothing. There are messages everywhere one goes. Just have to be open-minded so the messages can be received as they were intended.